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Re: Biz Buzz
Mar 18, 2024, 20:31
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Re: Biz Buzz Mar 18, 2024, 20:31
Mar 18, 2024, 20:31
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at least 50%. probably more.
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Re: Play GOG.com Games on Luna
Mar 18, 2024, 20:29
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Re: Play GOG.com Games on Luna Mar 18, 2024, 20:29
Mar 18, 2024, 20:29
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Amazon will overpay if they want something bad enough. Overpaying can make even the most resolute minds crumble. If Bezo were to want GOG, he would get it. That said, I agree with Cutter, I don't think they wish to sell or really need to. I also don't think Amazon really needs them for anything other then a partner.
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Re: ItB: That's no moon!
Mar 18, 2024, 20:27
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Re: ItB: That's no moon! Mar 18, 2024, 20:27
Mar 18, 2024, 20:27
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I am literally the only person I know who liked the first one and is looking forward to the second one.

I know I like some trash movies...but is it really that bad to everyone else or is the press just crushing it?
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Re: OotB: Happy St. Paddy's
Mar 18, 2024, 00:26
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Re: OotB: Happy St. Paddy's Mar 18, 2024, 00:26
Mar 18, 2024, 00:26
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I have only had three pints of Ireland-sourced Guiness, so I am no expert or anything, but I can attest to it being better. All the good things about USA sourced Guiness...but better. It is not my only reason to go back to Ireland for a visit but it is in the Top 3. My parents actually went to a Guiness brewery. I want to do that if I go back. I just had some at a pub and not nearly enough...
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Re: STAR WARS: Battlefront Classic Collection Mod Controversy
Mar 17, 2024, 23:02
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Re: STAR WARS: Battlefront Classic Collection Mod Controversy Mar 17, 2024, 23:02
Mar 17, 2024, 23:02
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disappointing.
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Re: Quoteworthy
Mar 17, 2024, 13:28
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Re: Quoteworthy Mar 17, 2024, 13:28
Mar 17, 2024, 13:28
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Glassdoor is definitly not reliable. -a hiring manager
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Re: On Star Citizen Alpha 4.0
Mar 15, 2024, 17:45
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Re: On Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 Mar 15, 2024, 17:45
Mar 15, 2024, 17:45
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It's the greatest show in the industry. I find the whole thing immesly entertaining. Chris Roberts figured out how live the high life, never be in "crunch mode", and have a bunch of people worshipping him and his "game"....ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Just keep adding new features so you are in alpha forever. Bam!

It's genius when you really think about it.
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Re: Epic Games Sale; Get Deus Ex - Mankind Divided and The Bridge for Free
Mar 15, 2024, 00:52
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Re: Epic Games Sale; Get Deus Ex - Mankind Divided and The Bridge for Free Mar 15, 2024, 00:52
Mar 15, 2024, 00:52
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This is an epic freebie.
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Re: World Video Game Hall of Fame Finalists
Mar 15, 2024, 00:15
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Re: World Video Game Hall of Fame Finalists Mar 15, 2024, 00:15
Mar 15, 2024, 00:15
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Those are all worthy based on the standards. I can't really deny any of them, although I had to google neopets. I guess I live under a rock because I had no idea what it was.
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Re: OotB: Over easy
Mar 13, 2024, 22:41
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Re: OotB: Over easy Mar 13, 2024, 22:41
Mar 13, 2024, 22:41
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The fact that you can choose a non-Boeing flight on travel sites now is just mindblowing. Boeing would deny it, but we all know why that feature was put in and which name and models are checked by a great many people.
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Re: 600 Activision QA Workers Unionize
Mar 10, 2024, 16:29
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Re: 600 Activision QA Workers Unionize Mar 10, 2024, 16:29
Mar 10, 2024, 16:29
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Jim wrote on Mar 9, 2024, 18:48:
so… Prices went up because of Covid. Covid is gone, big business is raking in the cash, prices sure as hell aren’t going to go down. Blame Biden am I right? Republicans had blocked anti-inflation measures. I guess they want to solve the problem by giving more tax cuts for the rich.

Not trying to be the "well actually" dude.. but...

Covid is not gone. We have just learned to painfully live with it. 6.5% of the American population are positive for c19 daily, that's 21,515,000 people. (source: CDC) Currently about 600 people die every day from it despite the vaccine's ability to lessen the symptoms. We managed it down to not be so deadly....not because people aren't getting it. The problem though is somewhat similarily to cancer survivors, living through it can literally be only half the battle. We are starting to get a much better idea of what C19 does to the body in the long term. It's not good and it's expensive. Pulmonary, cadiac, neurological, and even renal systems can go through such stress during infection that it causes long term damage that the patient then has to manage for the rest of their lives. At first "they" thought that only people that suffered from unusually long battles with c19 were having these affects, but that is not turning out to be the case. The longer we go from January 2020, the more of these cases are found. The long term affect on the patients and the health care industry is very likely to be crazy in terms of costs.

I think of it like this, roughly 17 million Americans have a type of cancer at any given time. (source: CDC) The fatality rate is 3 times as high, and that's all the forms of cancer put together. I am not comparing C19 to cancer, they are different, this is purely for the numbers. I also do not want to be insensitive to anyone that has lost a loved one to cancer or be overly crass about death, but leaving less survivors is cheaper on the family and medical system as a whole. Survivors very frequently require expensive care for the rest of their lives. We have all heard the staggering numbers with regards to the money put towards cancer research and treatment yearly and its affecting 4 million people less per day then C19. It doesn't take a genius to see where I am going here. C19 isn't just here to stay, it has the real possiblity of being more financially costly to patients and the health care industry alike then cancer ever has been. Nearly everyone is getting c19 at least once in their lives regardless of the vaccine for the foreseeable future. It will likely be the case that published infection rates will be lower then reality for some time. It mutates too fast to believe otherwise, just like influenza. Imagine the costs and effects if everyone got some form of survivable cancer at least once in their life?

I only take the time to type this because I work in the middle management layer of the health care industry, so I get ansy when people say something that makes it sound like c19 isn't an issue anymore. (even casually) I get ansy because opinions effect votes and votes effect elections and elections effect budgets. I hate that health care can be polticial but our polticial parties have done that so now the only difference between two idiots may be which one thinks vaccines are beneficial and which one thinks they are CIA tracking devices. It is incredibly important that people get their boosters to make sure that if they do get it...it's as short an infection as possible so they lessen their chances of long term effects. I know I am not only speaking for the health care company I work for when I say that a significant amount of our staffing and resources are devoted to making sure our patients survive C19. Staffing and resources that were allocated to other things before the 'pandemic' and still aren't back to where they were because....as the math indicates...covid didn't go anywhere. 77.5% percent of the population has had it at least once. We aren't ever going back to "normal", and for many patients, they aren't either. We have to budget with it now as much as we ever did.

I told a buddy that I think of our national population's reaction to C19 the same as those yaks and zebras that have to cross crocodile infestered rivers during their migration. They just hit the run button aiming for the other side. They trample or get trampled by eachother while getting jumped by crocodiles they probably didnt know were even there. If we compare that to our nation's response to C19, we literally just got to the other side of the river for the second or third time. We are getting better at it but during elections we still trample eachother a bit and the crocodiles are definitly still there to kill a few of us. Additionally, we now also know that the other side of the river has lions to deal with.

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Re: OotB: Hour loss
Mar 10, 2024, 13:45
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Re: OotB: Hour loss Mar 10, 2024, 13:45
Mar 10, 2024, 13:45
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FUCK DST
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Re: 600 Activision QA Workers Unionize
Mar 9, 2024, 14:40
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Re: 600 Activision QA Workers Unionize Mar 9, 2024, 14:40
Mar 9, 2024, 14:40
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Microsoft has had a really extreme week. One day Russian hackers are all up in their business because apparently the 2nd most successful American technology company got outsmarted by Russian government employees. The next day they are being praised as the greatest humanitatian since Ghandi because they let some workers unionize.

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Re: ItB: Aye
Mar 9, 2024, 14:23
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Re: ItB: Aye Mar 9, 2024, 14:23
Mar 9, 2024, 14:23
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 9, 2024, 01:58:
Why does Bond have to be some young guy? Daniel Craig was 54 when he did No Time to Die and he pulled it off just fine. Idris Elba is actually younger than Daniel Crag. He could totally pull off Bond.

Cillian Murphy is a nerd. I do not mean that negatively, he just doesn't have the physicality to him nor charisma that Bond requires. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is just...eh. Henry Cavill could do it if he dirtied up his squeaky clean look. I get that it sells but that era of Bond is over. It died with Pierce Bronson. If anything Daniel Crag made Bond more human instead of a walking stereotype which was great for the series.

I can't speak for anyone else, but when I say "too old", I am not referring to the actor at this moment. I am referring to my assumption (and it is an assumption) that the producers/studio will pick someone, that if received well, could do the role for the foreseable future. A decade or more type of thing. I don't see why that would eliminate Cavill at age 40, but for most of the other names I have heard and could see as Bond "now", that would be challenging at best. Elba is only 5 years younger then Craig, and it has been 7 years since Craig filmed his last Bond appearence. So that means if they made Elba a Bond today he would already be 2 years older then Craig was when he finished as Bond. That doesn't lend itself well to a "decade or more" in the role. They kill that scenario and the hope if they pick a 50+ person for the first movie and I personally think its a core part of the franchise. Unless of course "Old Man Bond" is the angle.. but that only happens if Gen X and the Boomers are the only target audience...and that isn't going to happen because money. I will admit though, Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves have shown that people closer to 60 then 50 can sell tickets and be convincing in action movies that do not depend on CGI. I have to wonder if that is a reasonable expectation to put on leading men in general though.

Also, have you watched the Peaky Blinders? Cillian Murphy really shows his charisma and ability to act in a brutally physical role throughout that series. If you haven't, it is highly recommended television. At least the first 3-4 seasons were amazing. Life hasn't given me a chance to finish it. If I hadn't watched that show, just know I would be laughing at the concept of Murphy being Bond. It is very different from anything else I have personally seen him in. Between his acting ability and his stuntmen....Bond is well within his wheelhouse today. That said, he is 47 today, so in my mind, I don't think he would be my first choice.

My first choice currently would be Rege-Jean Page. He is the guy that will, coincidentally, play The Saint in the upcoming reboot of that franchise. Same franchise that put Moore on the map for Bond in his time. I imagine my current opinion will be affected one way or the other based on how that turns out. Not only is he playing the starring role, he is the executive producer.
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Re: WWE 2K24 Released
Mar 9, 2024, 11:30
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Re: WWE 2K24 Released Mar 9, 2024, 11:30
Mar 9, 2024, 11:30
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GothicWizard wrote on Mar 9, 2024, 10:28:
Kxmode wrote on Mar 8, 2024, 19:34:
How hard is it to spell 2024 with a zero, and would people be confused if the game was called WWE 24?

How hard is it to grasp K = 1000?

That aside, my issue with the game is the gfx looks on par with GTA4. Baffles me how a game in 2024 can look this dated out of the box.

I....I mean...we all get that its a play on the publisher name right? RIGHT?
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Re: ItB: Aye
Mar 8, 2024, 22:18
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Re: ItB: Aye Mar 8, 2024, 22:18
Mar 8, 2024, 22:18
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Are we even sure that there will be another Bond anytime soon?
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Re: Quoteworthy
Mar 8, 2024, 15:57
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Re: Quoteworthy Mar 8, 2024, 15:57
Mar 8, 2024, 15:57
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Prez wrote on Mar 8, 2024, 07:11:
This is public relations 101. You don't respond to the asshole threatening you on your public social media, because that answer intended for a couple of morons is read by everyone and it won't be received well. The tone deserved by a small few is not the tone that the vast majority of your customers deserve. So just don't do it. Devs keep making this mistake.


And its a universal truth in online customer service, regardless of industry.
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Re: Top Racer Collection Released
Mar 8, 2024, 02:27
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Re: Top Racer Collection Released Mar 8, 2024, 02:27
Mar 8, 2024, 02:27
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So is Top Racer anOutrun clone...or is Outrun a Top Racer clone?
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Re: Get Astro Duel 2 for Free
Mar 8, 2024, 02:25
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Re: Get Astro Duel 2 for Free Mar 8, 2024, 02:25
Mar 8, 2024, 02:25
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I snagged it. Its a bit fun...but yeah...the fugly is real. I didnt make a full hour.
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Re: Evening Consolidation
Mar 8, 2024, 02:21
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Re: Evening Consolidation Mar 8, 2024, 02:21
Mar 8, 2024, 02:21
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Not usually bothered by exclusives, but I have always had the opinion that there is no upside to the developers or the players for a game of Final Fantasy renown to be an exclusive. I hope Sony had to pay out the nose. I own Sony consoles and I am not personally a huge FF fan, so I am not bitter about anything.....I just wish the industry wouldn't do shit like this. Particularly in this day and age when nearly everything comes to everything eventually anyway.
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